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RAILWAY COMPANY 

INDUSTRIAL 
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J. F. HOLDEN, 

VICE-PRESIDENT 



S.G.WARNER, 

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F. E. ROESLER, 

INDUSTRIAL AND IMMIGRATION AGT. 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 






Industrial Department 
The Kansas City Southern Ry. Go. 



If you are seeking a location for the purpose of opening 
a farm, planting an orchard, raising commercial truck, 
raising livestock or poultry, or for the purpose of estab- 
lishing fruit evaporators, preserving, pickling or vinegar 
works, or to build and operate tanneries, flour mills, 
grist mills, cotton gins, cotton mills, woolen mills, cotton 
seed oil mills, fertilizer works, or to manufacture pine 
and hardwood lumber, wagons, agricultural implements, 
furniture, cooperage, fruit packages, boxes, paper stock, 
woodenware of every description, to operate a creamery 
or cheese factory, or to quarry building stone, or slate, or 
to manufacture brick, tile, sewer pipe or clay products of 
any description, or to mine lead, zinc, iron, or to engage 
in a mercantile business of any kind, or operate 
foundries, machine shops or iron works, or, if you 
desire to travel for health, for pleasure or for sport, for 
all of which there are splendid opportunities on the line 
of the Kansas City Southern Railway, write to 



F. E. ROESLER, 

Industrial and Immigr. Agt. 

Kansas City, Mo. 



BENTON COUNTY 

Arkansas 

ALONG THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY 



The great trouble, in a money-making way, 
with most of the American farmers, is, that 
they do not place a proper estimate upon the 
small things. No branch of industry has 
suffered more from this neglect than farming. 
In the older countries of the world where the 
population is dense and land for farming 
scarce, necessarily the little things must be 
studied and utilized in the economics of the 
farm. In China and Japan the farms consist 
of only a fraction of an acre and the man in 
Germany who cultivates ten acres is quite an 
important personage. In some of the older 
states of this country farming is conducted 
upon a few acres, but in this great unlimited 
outdoors of the Central and Southwest the 
trick has not yet been learned to fence in only 
a few acres and to cultivate these in a manner 
to yield large results. Too much energy is 
still being wasted in the effort to get one 
hundred bushels of corn from five acres, when 
an acre and a half should produce the same 
quantity. 

Only a few years ago in South Missouri and 
Northwest Arkansas, the farmer thought he 
had performed his full duty when he planted 
his fields in corn, wheat and oats. If he had 
his crop planted in good time and the season 
was favorable, he sometimes came out ahead, 



but if, as often happens in the best of countries, 
the season was not favorable, he was in for a 
siege of "hard times." 

In 1894, when the Kansas City. Southern 
Railway was built through the western part of 
Benton County, save a few old apple orchards, 
there was nothing grown on the farms except 
corn, wheat and oats. The farms were large 
and the methods of cultivation crude. There 
were no towns along this line except Siloam 
Springs, which was only a straggling string of 
frame houses, which followed the zig-zag 
courses of Sager Creek, and many of these were 
vacant, the population all told being less than 
one thousand. Twenty miles north was a 
dilapidated village of one or two hundred 
known as Sulphur Springs. 

Since completion of the railway there has 
been a wondrous change in town and country. 
Along the railway in this county there are now 
four other thrifty, prosperous towns, three of 
them larger than was Siloam at the time of 
the building of the railway, and Siloam Springs 
is a substantially built modern city of between 
4,000 and 5,000 population. No place on this 
railway more completely illustrates the profit 
in paying heed to little things in farming than 
do the four towns in this county. The country 



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A BENTON COUNTY FARM, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 



around each of these towns, Siloam Springs, 
Gravette, Decatur, Sulphur Springs and Gentry, 
is occupied by a class of thrifty farmers and 
fruit growers, whose farms range in size from 
five to eighty acres, ten and twenty acres being 
the average size. These farms are well culti- 
vated in a great variety of crops, and failures 
of crops and industrial maladies such as "bad 
luck" and hard times are rare occurrences. 
The soil and climate produce all the cereals 
and domestic grasses and the greatest variety 
of fruits and vegetables. Something is pro- 
duced to sell every day in the year. In spring 
and summer, fruits and berries in vast quantity , 
and in winter, poultry, eggs, butter and fine 
live stock. 

It is an error to presume that the men who 
run the stores, the banks and factories make 
cities. They are the results of causes which 
create the wealth of the cities. They would 
not be there, were not the wealth-producing 
factors of the country behind them. To their 
credit it should be said that many of them 
have personally contributed to the great work 
of promoting and developing the fruit and 
truck growing industry and have enjoyed the 
fruits of their enterprise. Of course there is 
always a pessimistic minority who see no good 
in anything and will claim that fruit-growing 
does not pay. 

Notwithstanding this, there have been 
erected great brick, cement and stone blocks 
in Siloam Springs, Gravette and Decatur, a 
fifty-thousand dollar cold storage and ice 
plant, at Siloam Springs, water-works, elec- 
tric light system, barrel and box factories, 
evaporating plants, vinegar works, large can- 
ning plant, poultry packing houses, numerous 
mercantile establishments and banks in all the 
towns along the K. C. S. Ry. in Benton County. 
The bank deposits in Siloam Springs alone 
exceed one-half million dollars and the deposits 
of the other banks come from the farms and 
orchards. 



All the towns have splendid school facilities 
and in Siloam Springs, Sulphur Springs and 
the other towns, fine homes are the material 
gains, but an intelligent citizenship, with high 
ideals, clean morals, refined manners, friends of 
art and literature are the deeper imprints left 
on the population by the fruit-growing indus- 
try. Does fruit-growing pay? Visit the annual 
. Chautauqua Assembly at Siloam Springs. See 
the results of fruit-growing in the material 
and social advancement in any of the towns of 
this region. Does it pay to do small farming? 
Visit the business men and the farmers. That 
disappointment will occasionally be met with is 
to be expected, that all years will not be alike in 
financial results is natural, but taken as a whole, 
where will a more contented citizenship be 
found than in the western part of Benton 
County? 

Not alone has wealth been produced from 
the soil, but the value of the soil itself has 
grown. Before fruit-growing was placed on a 
commercial basis, there were practically no 
fixed values to lands in this section. To-day, a 
hundred dollars an acre is not regarded high 
for land with an orchard close to any of these 
towns and some land has been sold for milch 
more. With the advantages of climate, health, 
water, fruit-growing and poultry-raising pos- 
sessed by this locality, there is no reason why 
this land in a few years should not be worth 
as much as the fruit lands of California. Every- 
thing in fruit grown in this latitude is success- 
fully grown here, and the variety is so great 
that there is no such thing as failure. Some- 
times the peach crop is nipped by the frost 
and the apple crop scant and inferior in quality, 
but the strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries, 
dewberries, blackberries and cannery stock are 
regular and profitable crops. The greatest of 
these is the strawberry, which is shipped in 
car load lots. The business has grown to great 
dimensions. Between Sulphur Springs and 
Siloam Springs there are probably between 



2,000 and 2,500 acres in this fruit and the car 
loads shipments amount to 300 to 350 cars. 
The products shipped from the county in an 
ordinary fruit year vary in value from $3,000.00 
to $3,250,000 and a half-million dollars might 
be added for poultry and eggs. For 190^ the 
shipments were as follows: 

Car loads of green apples, 1,163 ; dried apples, 
133; car loads of apples in cold storage, 283; 
car loads of peaches, 163; car loads of straw- 
berries, 105; bushels of apples to distillery, 
98,000; bushels of apples for cider, 253,715; 
crates of blackberries, 6,841; crates of rasp- 
berries, 13,808; bushels of apples canned, 
125,800; bushels of peaches canned, 23,800; 
bushels of tomatoes canned, 5,000; car loads 
of apples wasted, 63. 

The money value received for the apple crop 
was $1,132,654 and for the other fruits $650,- 



Strawberries net, one year with another, $75 
to $100 per acre and sometimes much more. 
The peach crop is more or less uncertain, 
yielding, say, four crops in six years and is 
exceptionally valuable when obtained. 

The natural conditions in Benton County do 
not require that the farmer shall limit himself to 
one line of production, that is to say put all his 
eggs in one basket. He can grow wheat, oats, 
corn, clover, timothy, any of the domestic 
grasses, blue grass, flax, alfalfa, potatoes here 
as abundantly as elsewhere and indulge in 
stock-raising, poultry-raising and in fruit and 
berry culture besides. He can so arrange it 
as to have a cash income almost any month in 
the year if he properly diversifies his farming 
operations. 

The lands of the western part of Benton 
County are varied in their composition and 






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A GOOD LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY COUNTRY 



000; total for fruits, $1,782,654; for poultry 
and eggs. $250,000 to $300,000. 

While general farming and stock-raising are 
carried on here profitably as everywhere else 
in the Ozark region, the "ready money crop" 
is fruit of one kind or another. The "Big Red 
Apple" generally buys the bank stock in this 
section, and as a commercial crop is as depend- 
able as a source of continued income as most 
other crops. It is grown and handled as a 
commercial proposition and is usually sold long 
before the crop has matured. About fifty trees 
are grown to the acre and a mature tree should 
readily produce an income of $2, or $100 per 
acre. Fruit which does not meet the market 
requirements is evaporated or converted into 
vinegar or cider, and if the market is slow, the 
crop is placed in cold storage until the price is 
satisfactory. Partial failures and at long inter- 
vals a complete failure occasionally happen. 



contour. Near the railroad they are rolling 
rather than hilly. The areas of bottom land 
though highly fertile, are as a rule small and 
narrow. The soil is usually a dark loam and 
excellent for all ordinary field crops as well as 
for potatoes, berries and commercial truck. 
The uplands generally are covered with a 
thick layer of fertile red or chocolate colored 
soil and are unexcelled for the cultivation of 
fruit, berries, grapes, etc., and produce abun- 
dantly domestic grasses, which are sown for. 
pasturage, such as blue grass, clover, etc. 
Some of the uplands or ridges are covered in 
places with gravel, though most of the land is 
entirely free from it. This loose gravel does 
not in the least interfere with the cultivation of 
the land and in the production of fruits and 
berries is considered a decided advantage, as 
its presence tends to retain the moisture in 
the soil and it has been observed that fruits 



grown on this land are better colored and 
mature earlier than on other lands. Under 
proper cultivation these lands yield very good 
crops of corn and small grain. 

Siloam Springs, Gentry, Decatur, Gravette 
and Sulphur Springs are highly worthy of a 
visit from the man who is looking for a new 
home. Highly improved lands vary in price 
from $50 to $150 per acre, the higher price 
for bearing orchards. Unimproved or par- 
tially improved lands range in price from $10 
to $35 per acre. Where conveniences for quick 
and easy hauling of fruits to the railway station 
are not the principal consideration and where 
general farming rather than fruit-growing 
prevail, unimproved lands can be had at much 
lower prices, say $8 to $15 per acre. Under 
present conditions a man of moderate means 



will have no trouble in finding tillable land 
compatible with the dimensions of his purse, 
and the man who wants a highly improved 
farm with bearing orchards and high class 
improvements can also find what he seeks. 
In either case improved or unimproved land 
can be had here far a smaller outlay of money, 
in a fairly well populated country, than almost 
anywhere else. 

The landscape of western Benton County is 
one of singular beauty and Sulphur Springs 
and Siloam Springs are famous health and 
pleasure resorts. Great springs of the purest 
freestone water abound, and at Sulphur Springs 
are several varieties of mineral waters, chaly- 
beate, lithia and sulphur springs which are 
visited annually by several thousand people 
who go there for the benefit of their health. 



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THRESHING WHEAT AT SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 



Sulphur Springs, Arkansas 



Sulphur Springs, a prosperous town of 1,500 
people, is a noted health and pleasure resort, 
situated 205 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. 
Its altitude is about 1,000 feet above sea level. 
Its several medicinal springs are of great 
hygienic value and are visited by thousands of 
people who seek relief from chronic ailments of 
various kinds. The town, containing a number 
of attractive stone and brick buildings, sur- 
rounds a large beautiful park of about thirty 
acres in which are situated the several springs, 
each properly housed and protected. Running 
through the park is Butler Creek, a clear spark- 
ling mountain stream, carrying a considerable 
flow of water. A fine rock dam thrown across 
the stream forms a charming clear lake, half 
a mile long, and affording fine boating, fishing 



and bathing. High-wooded hills entirely sur- 
round the town and from the tops of these most 
magnificent views, extending over many miles 
of country, may be had. Therie are numerous 
fine drives in the vicinity, and finer scenery 
than that surrounding Sulphur Springs is 
difficult to find. The principal attractions of 
Sulphur Springs will always be the benefits 
which may be obtained through the use of the 
waters of the springs. Fine springs of pure 
water abound everywhere in the vicinity. The 
waters of the springs situated in the park are, 
however, most highly valued on account of their 
curative properties. The most noted of these 
are the Chalybeate or Iron Spring, the waters 
of which are credited with being highly benefi- 
cial in complaints peculiar to women and in 



cases of general debility; the Saline Spring, 
credited with very favorable action in cases of 
stomach trouble, catarrh, sluggish liver, dys- 
pepsia, constipation, gout and rheumatism ; the 
White and Black Sulphur Springs, used exten- 
sively for the relief of liver disorders, abdomi- 
nal plethora, malaria, rheumatism, gout, kidney 
disorders, etc., and the Lithia Spring, good 
for stomach trouble, rheumatism and torpid 
livers, etc. Large quantities of this water are 
shipped to the cities of Kansas City, Fort 
Smith, Texarkana, Beaumont and other 
places. 

The accommodations for the entertainment 
of health and pleasure seekers are modern and 
up-to-date and capable of entertaining a very 
large number of people at one time. The 
Kihlberg Hotel and Bath House can entertain 
200 guests; the Oaklawn Inn has forty bed- 
rooms; the Ozark Hotel, forty bedrooms; 
the Joplin House, twenty bedrooms; the 
Sulphur Springs Hotel, twenty; Windsor Hotel, 
twenty; Miller Cottage, fifteen bedrooms; in 
addition to which are several private houses 
at which board and lodging may be obtained. 

During the past two or three years there has 
been great building activity at Sulphur Springs, 
and about half a million dollars has been ex- 
pended in the construction of fine business 
buildings, hotels, dwellings, churches, schools 
and town improvements, including an electric 
light plant, waterworks, sewerage, cement 
walks, street improvements, etc., etc. 

Owing to the fact that the health resort 
features of Sulphur Springs were uppermost 
in the minds of .those who settled in the town, the 
agricultural and horticultural resources of the 
immediate vicinity did not attract the attention 
they would have attracted elsewhere. There 
is a large acreage of untilled land of good 



quality and capable of producing all crops 
grown in Benton County in the immediate 
neighborhood of the town. It will abundantly 
produce all the ordinary field crops, corn, wheat, 
rye, oats, flax, hay, etc., and affords fine 
pasturage for live stock of all kinds. It is an 
admirable country for poultry raising and most 
excellent for the cultivation of apple and peach 
orchards and berries. There are now within 
a radius of four miles of Sulphur Springs 
between 300 and 400 acres planted in fruits, 
three-fourths in apples and one hundred acres 
in strawberries. The yield and money value 
per acre is the same as in other parts of Benton 
County. The value of an apple crop varies 
with the age of the orchard, running one year 
with another, including trees of all ages, from 
$.50 to $100 per acre. Early apples begin to 
bear at four to five years, some at six years. 
No large crops are expected before the seventh 
or eighth year. In Benton County there have 
been only two failures of the apple crop in 
sixteen years. The peach is somewhat irregular 
in bearing and is generally grown as a catch 
crop. Peaches grown on high ground net 
from $50 to $100 per acre. At times the crop 
is very profitable, running as high as $200 per 
acre. 

Strawberries in the average net the grower 
from $50 to $100 per acre, though yields as 
high as $250 and $300 per acre are sometimes 
obtained. Only a few of the growers obtain 
these results; $100 per acre being a high figure 
for the other growers in the same neighborhood. 

Land values are very low as compared with 
other sections of Benton County. In quality 
the lands are as good as in the other parts of 
the county, but fruits have not been grown in 
commercial quantity at Sulphur Springs, and 
until there are enough fruit growers there to 




FARM VIEW AT SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARK. 



ship in carload lots the increase in value will 
not be as rapid as in sections where large 
quantities of fruits are produced. This condi- 
tion will not last long as there is now a rapid 
influx of new settlers and the fruit growing 
industry will be placed on a commercial basis 
very soon. 

Poultry raising would pay handsomely at 
Sulphur Springs. The shipments from Benton 
County last year amounted to thirty-five car 
loads of 15,000 pounds each, valued at 



$60,750, and seventy-five car loads of eggs 
valued at $128,000, making a total of $188,750. 
Turkeys do very well in Benton County, and 
large numbers are shipped to the Northern 
markets late in fall. Live stock of all descrip- 
tions does well, as the country is well grassed 
and has best water in unlimited quantity. The 
homeseeker would do well to stop over at 
Sulphur Springs and examine the adjacent 
lands, which he will find to be of good quality 
and exceptionally low in price. 




SUPPER TIME IN THE POULTRY YARD, DECATUR, ARK. 



Qravette, Arkansas 



The writer of this sketch arrived in Arkansas, 
from Minnesota, about nineteen years ago. 
Sulphur Springs was then the terminus of the 
"Splitlog Railroad," which in later years be- 
came part of the Kansas City Southern Rail- 
way, and this was my first stopping place. 
Coming from a smooth, blizzard-swept prairie 
country to one of rugged hills with beautiful 
and picturesque scenery, presented a contrast, 
which, from a utilitarian point of view, made it 
difficult for the new arrival just from the broad 
prairies to properly value its agricultural 
resources. The first impression was not very 
favorable. However, moving westward and 
later southward, the rich flat woods and the 
fertile valleys with their deep alluvial soils and 
growing cropts, lent encouragement and made 
visible the country's resources, developed and 
undeveloped. The country in this part of 



Benton County did not show up much in the 
way of developed resources; it had been with- 
out railway facilities and was not in the market 
as a commercial competitor. Here and there, 
scattered through the forest-clad hills, were 
farms, most of them small and few that had 
much land cleared. Yet, those who had ap- 
plied their energies to orchard planting were 
reaping good financial results, and to them the 
market was open. This industry, like others in 
those days, was handicapped and hampered by 
the lack of shipping facilities, and fruit could 
not be handled in any great commercial 
quantity, a feature which was discouraging. 

The people generally were happy and con- 
tented, most of them were descendants of 
those who had lived there prior to the Civil 
War, but among them were many newcomers 
whose advent was always welcome. The old 




STRAWBERRY PICKERS AT GRAVETTE, ARK. 



settlers enjoyed life as only real contented 
people can enjoy it. There were many fine 
farms, much given to the cultivation of grain 
and the production of live stock. Cotton, ten 
years earlier, had been a staple product of 
Benton County. Some fruit was cultivated, 
some berries, apples and peaches, but most 
of the peaches were- seedlings and the apples 
were largely confined to the Ben Davis and 
Winesap varieties. In those days there was a 
mile or more of forest between the farms, and 
the next door neighbor was out of the range 
of vision; but since then great changes have 
taken place. 

With the advent of the Kansas City Southern 
Railway came a change in the program, so to 
speak. Five miles south of Sulphur Springs, 
in the flat woods, a most favored agricultural 
and horticultural section, there sprang into 
existence a new town. This townsite, Gravette, 
was soon covered with frame buildings and 
became a busy village. As the country de- 
velops so does the town. The railway made 
the market readily accessible, created a new 
life and stimulated industry among the far- 
mers, and since then an enormous development 
has taken place. Hundreds and hundreds of 
acres of land were cleared and thousands of 
apple trees, peach trees and other choice fruit 
trees were set out. Immigration began to pour 
in, many new people came and settled and are 
still coming. The orchard interest has grown 
unceasingly and now this part of Benton 
County stands on an equality with the best 
sections of this great fruit-growing region. 

Gravette, which originally consisted exclu- 
sively of frame buildings, possesses to-day an 
entire block of solid brick buildings on one side 
of the street, half a block on the other side, 
and a hundred feet of brick business buildings 
on another street; two large grist mills and 
one smaller mill; a large 100,000-barrel capac- 
ity vinegar factory; a cannery, cost $10,000; 



a large school house; four church buildings, 
two of them modern brick edifices; an evapora- 
tor, planing mill, electric light plant, broom 
factory; packing sheds of Farmers' Union; 
two substantial banks; numerous general mer- 
chants, grocers, druggists and other business 
enterprises; two telephone lines; two publish- 
ing plants, including a weekly newspaper. A 
large lime manufacturing plant, near the town, 
is in operation all the year round. 

The fruit growing industry at Gravette is 
large and covers a vast field. A late venture is 
cantaloupe growing, organized by the Farmers' 
Union. No less than 500 acres are cultivated 
in this crop at Gravette, and the prospective 
yield is about 100 car loads. Strawberry culti- 
vation is growing and the Farmers' Union 
reports that 300 additional acres will be planted 
during the present year. Of the last year's 
apple crop, Gravette supplied 150 car loads, 
which were shipped, and about forty car loads 
which were worked up by the vinegar factory 
and the evaporators. The value of the live 
stock shipped annually from this station is 
between $50,000 and $75,000; and the lime 
output for one year is valued at $40,000. The 
annual shipments of poultry and eggs amount 
to $30,000. All these are growing industries, 
each with a larger production each succeeding 
year. Corn, wheat, forage and other crops are 
extensively grown and are largely consumed in 
the raising of live stock. 

The present population of Gravette is 1,250, 
and about fifty new people have settled here 
during the past year. During the year five 
new dwellings, two new mercantile buildings, 
one factory and a warehouse, together with 
residence additions, have been built at a cost 
of $10,600, and street improvements costing 
$2,000 have been made. Three new stores 
have opened up for business, with stocks valued 
at $4,000. The Gravette Canning, Packing 
and Cold Storage Co. has built a factory em- 
ploying about 20 men. The year's shipments 



handled by one of the railroads consisted of 
10 car loads of wheat, 20 of corn, 60 of apples, 
: 42 of cattle, 5 of horses and mules, 5 of sheep 
and goats, 30 of hogs, 3,000 crates of peaches, 
2,000 of cantaloupes, 3,000 of strawberries and 
blackberries, 4,000 cases of eggs, 75,000 pounds 
of poultry, $40,000 worth of lime, 8,000 pounds 
of ;j wool and $2,000 worth of miscellaneous 
truck. 

About 200 new people settled on farms and 
brought under cultivation 500 acres or more of 
new lands; the improvements being valued at 
$5,000. New lands planted in orchard about 
200 acres, the value of the improvements 
being $8,000. 

Dairying is becoming an important industry 
and will form a source of considerable income, 
and there are great possibilities in the raising 
of fine live stocky for which there is abundant 



forage, an excellent climate and pure water. 
Gravette's Commercial Club, recently reorga- 
nized, will take pleasure in supplying any 
desired information concerning town and coun- 
try. The Kansas City Southern Railway and 
the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway afford 
splendid transportation facilities to the best of 
markets. 

The climate prevailing in the Ozark region, 
its pure water, and thousands of springs, add 
much to the natural attractiveness of the 
country. There is room for many more people 
here and small tract intensive farming is prov- 
ing very profitable. More can be made in 
fruits, berries and truck, on small tracts, than 
is possible to make on larger tracts where 
thorough cultivation cannot be successfully 
applied. The altitude of Gravette and adjacent 
country is over 1,200 feet. 







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PACKING APPLES FOR SHIPMENT, DECATUR, ARK. 



Decatur, Arkansas 



Decatur is one of the numerous prosperous 
towns in Benton County and has about 450 
inhabitants. It is 217 miles south of Kansas 
City and 62 miles from Joplin, Mo., and in 
point of altitude, 1231 feet, is one of the more 
elevated towns on the K. C. S. Ry. It has been 
almost entirely rebuilt within the last three 
years and nearly all the frame buildings have 
been replaced by attractive brick and concrete 
structures. It is a compact little town, sur- 
rounded by some 300 farms and orchards 
within a radius of five miles. About two 
thousand acres are devoted to apple orchards 
and other fruits, berries and cannery stock and 
5,000 to 6,000 acres to corn and general field 
crops. The principal business of the town is 
handling and shipping fruits and the manu- 



facture of fruit products. The Holland- 
American Fruit Products Co. has one of the best 
equipped and most complete canning, evapo- 
rating and preserving plants in the state, and 
provides a good market for all products not 
shipped. The year 1909 was not a good fruit 
year, but the shipments from Decatur amounted 
to 18 car loads of apples, 1,800 crates of canta- 
loupes, 22,000 crates of strawberries, 4,000 
crates of blackberries, 3,500 pounds of miscel- 
laneous truck, 26,000 pounds of poultry, 850 
cases of eggs of 30 dozen each, 10 car loads of 
cattle and 15 car loadS; (jLJiogs. Large quan- 
tities of fruits were consumed by the cannery 
and of these there is no record. Within three 
and one half miles of Decatur are 300,000 apple 
trees, 180,000 peach trees, and more than 600 




BERRY PICKERS LINED UP FOR A DAY'S WORK 



acres of strawberries and blackberries. The 
country adjacent to Decatur is one of small 
farms intensely cultivated and the money 
returns obtained per acre are large, in some 
cases astonishing. The strawberry growers 
get an average of $100 per acre from their crops, 
but the exceptions are worthy of record. Crop 
of 1909: 

J. L. Denton, from 4>2 acres, $1,247.20; av- 
erage per acre, $277.15. 

S. P. Londagin, from S^i acres, $1,348.00; 
average per acre, $359.46. 

G. F. Abercrombie, from 4 acres,' $1,467.72; 
average per acre, $366.93. 

J. R. Hitch, "from Ji acre, $324.36; average 
per acre, $649.20. 

W. H. Clark, from 1}^ acres, $505.28; av- 
erage per acre, $336.85. 

J. M. Buckner, from 3 acres, $1,195.14; av- 
erage per acre, $398.38. 

John Smith, from 2}4 acres, $710.52; av- 
erage per acre, $284.00. 

Sam J. Whiteside, from 2 acres, $600.00; 
average per acre, $300.00. 

M. B. Evans, from IffJ acres, $566.-58; 
average per acre, $377.72. 

H. E. Clark, from 2H acres, $746.40; av- 
erage per acre, $271.05. 

R. E. Lee, in 1907, sold $3,000 worth apples 
from 35 acres. 

S. Londagin, 1908, sold $840 worth straw- 
berries from 2 acres. 

Port Howard, sold 400 bushels of tomatoes 
per acre. 

E. N. Plank, sales $12,811 from 100 acres 
of strawberries. 

Decatur has made a steady growth from 
year to year and now has a first class cannery, 
costing about $30,000, a bank with $35,000 to 
$50,000 deposits, an excellent graded school in 
a modern brick school building, costing $10,000, 
some fifteen or twenty mercantile establish- 
ments, housed in modern brick or concrete 



buildings, a large concrete shipper's warehouse, 
fruit packing houses, concrete block factory, 
waterworks, electric lights, etc., etc. During 
the year ending June 30, 1909, there were built 
12 dwellings, costing $12,000; 14 mercantile 
buildings, costing $50,000; two factory build- 
ings, $3,000; a new hotel, $1,500; park im- 
provements, $800; street improvements, $600; 
•new telephone improvements, $600. Two 
mercantile concerns with stocks aggregating 
$7,000 opened up for business. 

Nine new farms were opened up on the ad- 
jacent lands and 75 acres of land were cleared, 
the improvements, including houses, fences, 
etc.; amounted to $6,000. In all 105 new 
people have settled on farms. 

The country round about Decatur is undulat- 
ing, and traversed by numerous small water 
courses fed by springs. The creek bottoms as a 
rule are small and narrow, but are highly fer- 
tile, the soil being splendidly adapted to the 
cultivation of potatoes, berries, commercial 
truck and all the field crops of the country. 
The red or chocolate-colored uplands are un- 
excelled for the production of fruits, berries, 
grapes, etc., and produce abundantly the do- 
mestic grasses which are sown for pasturage. 
It has been observed that the highest points 
are best suited for peaches, while the apple 
will do well on nearly all the lands. Loose 
gravel is found in some places, but this is con- 
sidered an advantage, as it does not interfere 
with cultivation and tends to hasten the 
maturity of the crop. 

Under proper cultivation these lands yield 
very good crops of corn and small grain. Nearly 
all the country in the vicinity of Decatur was 
originally covered with ^ ^owth of hardwood 
timber, consisting of various kinds of oak, 
some walnut and other timber. There is a 
ready sale of this timber in various forms and 
the income derived is generally more than 



sufficient to pay the cost of clearing the land 
where this is necessary. 

While general farming and stock-raising are 
carried on here profitably, as everywhere else 
in the Ozark region, the ready money crop is 
fruit of one kind or another. The "Big Red 
Apple" and the Strawberry generally buy the 
bank stock in this section, and as a commercial 
crop are as dependable as a source of continued 
income as any other crop. Apples are grown 
and handled as a commercial proposition and 
are usually sold long before the crop has ma- 
tured. About fifty trees are grown to the acre, 
and a mature tree should readily produce an 
income of $2, or $100 per acre. Fruit which 
does not meet the market requirements as to 
form, size and color is either canned, evapo- 
rated or converted into cider or vinegar, and 
if the market is slow is placed in cold storage 
until the price is satisfactory. 

About 500 acres are planted in strawberries 
and raspberries; blackberries, cherries, plums 
and peaches are grown more or less extensively 
and shipped with other fruits in car load lots. 
The peach acreage is large but the yield is 
more or less uncertain. About four crops are 
obtained in six years, but these crops are ex- 
ceptionally valuable when they are obtained. 
The railway facilities are such that fast fruit 
trains with refrigerator cars deliver fruits in 



Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, 
etc., as fast as passenger trains can travel. No 
fruit-producing region is better, situated with 
regard to the market than is Benton County. 
About 30 miles north is the city of Joplin, 
claiming 46,000 inhabitants and 100,000 more 
within fifteen miles thereof, all engaged in 
various ways with the lead and zinc mining 
industry; twenty miles further north, the city 
of Pittsburg, Kansas, with 25,000 people in 
town and 75,000 more within a radius of ten 
miles, all interested in coal mining; some 50 or 
60 miles east, the city of Springfield, Mo., with 
about 20,000; two hundred odd miles further 
northeast, St. Louis, Mo. ; about 200 miles south, 
Fort Smith, Ark., with 35,000; and 217 miles 
north, Kansas City and suburbs with a 
third of a million people. 

Highly improved lands in the immediate 
vicinity of Decatur are valued at prices rang- 
ing from $50 to $200 per acre, the higher price 
being for mature bearing orchards, with houses, 
barns and fences. Unimproved or partially 
improved lands range in price from $10 to $35 
per acre. Where convenience for quick and 
easy hauling of fruits to the railway station is 
not the principal consideration and where gen- 
eral farming is preferred, unimproved lands can 
be had for $8 to $15 per acre. 



Gentry, Arkansas 



Is situated on the Port Arthur Route about 
midway north and south in the western half 
of Benton County, Arkansas, 222 miles south 
of Kansas City. It is on a high level plateau, 
with a beautiful level prairie country, inter- 
spersed with groves of young timber on the 
west, rolling timber land with an occasional 
rich valley on the east; a fine fertile valley 
on the north, and Flint creek valley on 
the south; and still farther south by a very 
level country — mostly prairie. All this coun- 
try is well watered with springs and cool run- 
ning brooks. Gentry is the highest point on 
the railroad, elevated 1,238 feet above sea level. 
On account of this elevation and fine fertile 
land, it has been selected by the Ozark Orchard 
Co. as a site for the largest orchard in the world. 
Hence for five miles north on either side of the 
railroad they have a continuous orchard. 

Gentry has 1,200 people. Our principal 
streets have good cement sidewalks. We have 
an excellent six-room brick public school 
building, and High School, cost $5,000, and 
employ eight teachers. 

Hendrix Academy with the principal's 
home, costing $10,000, gives Gentry excellent 
school facilities. Our taxes are light— 17 J^ 
mills for all purposes. Our state and county 
are out of deot. We have neither snakes nor 
mosquitoes, chills or malaria. But we do have 
an abundance of fruit of all kinds, with good 
health to enjoy it. 



Gentry has a system of public waterworks, 
electric lights, a fine auditorium seating 1,000 
people; hotel, $10,000, said to be one of the 
best in Northwest Arkansas; State Bank of 
Gentry, one of the strongest financial institu- 
tions in the county, occupying their new stone 
and brick building at a cost of $5,000; C. P. 
Catron, cashier; good roller mill, one among 
the best; stores of all kinds; box and barrel 
factory; fine church houses; a canning factory 
which turns out thousands of cans of tomatoes, 
pumpkins and other canned goods; five fruit 
evaporators. 

The country immediately surrounding Gen- 
try, say within a radius of two and one-half 
miles, is densely settled, having about one 
family to every forty acres, and the majority 
of tracts in cultivation range from five to 
twenty acres. Within two and one-half miles 
of the railway station there are probably 2,500 
people, nearly all of whom are engaged in or 
interested in agricultural and horticultural 
pursuits. 

Very few small towns ship so great a variety 
of products to market as does the town of 
Gentry. For the year 1909, the shipments 
from this station amounted to 6 car loads of 
vinegar, 11 car loads of canned goods, 26 car 
loads of apples, 7 car loads of evaporated 
apples, 11 cars of skins and cores, 4,771 crates 
of strawberries, 702 crates of blackberries, 24 
crates of pears and plums, 72,210 pounds of 



poultry, 871 crates of peaches, 4,000 cases of 
eggs, 532 cases of beans, 19 car loads of cattle, 
2 car loads of sheep and goats, 3,980 pounds of 
wool, and 13 car loads of hogs. 

Large quantities of vegetables are produced 
for cannery stock, and consist of sweet potatoes, 
pumpkins, tomatoes, etc., and are used from 
July to October. The butter shipments 
amount to about 12,000 pounds. 

The grain produced at Gentry is consumed 
entirely at home or fed on the farms. Wheat 
yields from 10 to 15 bushels per acre; oats 
from 30 to 40, and corn from 25 to 40 bushels. 
From 20,000 to 30,000 bushels of wheat and 



about 30,000 bushels of oats are annually 
produced. 

The improvements in Gentry during 1909 
consisted of 4 new dwellings costing $4,000, and 
one mile of concrete sidewalk costing $2,000. 
One hundred new people settled on the adjacent 
lands and one hundred acres were cleared and 
put in cultivation at a cost of $1,000. 

Improved farms with bearing orchards in 
five and ten-acre tracts, close to town, ordi- 
narily sell for $100 to $200 per acre; two miles 
out, for $50 to $100 per acre; .unimproved 
lands usually sell for $20 to $40 per acre. 




GENTRY, ARK. 



Siloam Springs, Arkansas 



Siloam Springs is south of Kansas City 229 
miles, on a rolling plateau of the Ozark Moun- 
tains, 1,200 feet above sea level. It is in the 
northwest corner of Arkansas, one and one- 
half miles from the Oklahoma line and twenty- 
eight miles from the Missouri line. The popu- 
lation is about 4,000, and it is strictly speaking 
a city of homes, scattered over much territory, 
giving each dwelling plenty of ground. The 
business part of the city is substantially built 
of brick and stone, and the business houses and 
stores carry stocks usually found in much 
larger places. The city has developed far 
enough to have churches of every denomination 
with buildings a credit to a city of ten thousand 
and all of them well supported. The finest new 
brick school building in the land. A good 
accredited College well patronized. The city 
owns her own electric light plant and water- 



works system, and the city's supply of water 
comes from a big spring a mile from town. 
Twenty thousand dollars is being now ex- 
pended to improve these plants. $75,000 cold 
storage and ice plant and a $25,000 Water 
Shipping plant. Big flouring mill. The largest 
apple vinegar plant in the world. Apple 
evaporators and other manufacturing concerns. 
This is the largest shipping and receiving point 
on the Kansas City Southern Railroad between 
Kansas City and the southern terminals. 
Over twenty miles of cement sidewalks were 
built last year and more under construc- 
tion in every part of the city. Well 
graded streets eveiy where, as good as if macada- 
mized. Three prosperous banks. Daily and 
weekly papers and national magazines. All 
lines of business represented with up-to-date 
business men. Wholesale produce houses. In 




PEACH SEASON AT SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 



fact everything of importance in the city busi- 
ness life is well and honestly represented. The 
volume of business transacted here each year 
is large enough to keep one-half million dollars 
deposits in the local banks, all the year around. 
Siloam Springs has been for many years a 
favorite health and pleasure resort for the 
people of Louisiana and Texas, and during the 
summer months the population is augmented 



by 2,000 to 2,500 people who come here to 
spend the summer. The climate and water 
of Siloam Springs are conducive to good health 
on general principles, and the water has a 
decided beneficial effect on rheumatic, kidney 
and stomach disorders. The moral environment 
of the city is the best. There are no saloons, 
with their attendant vices, no blind tigers, no 
gambling houses or disreputable places of any 




MR. DAVEY'S APPLE ORCHARD, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK 




GATHERING BLACKBERRIES, GENTRY, ARK. 



kind. The climate is nearly perfect, the spark- 
ling waters of the springs pure and healthful, 
living is cheap, fruit plentiful and the social 
atmosphere pure and wholesome. The relig- 
ious element predominates and Siloam Springs 
is not only a city of homes, but a city of 
churches, schools and colleges, and the people 
walk the straight and narrow path. 

Improvements to the value of $100,000 or 
more are made in the city each year. Last 
year there was completed an elegant sixteen- 
room school house, built at a cost of $40,000. 
A substantial steel bridge was built across 
Sager Creek, a pretty stream which flows 
through the city. The Arkansas Chautauqua 
Association erected a fine steel pavilion, capa- 
ble of seating 3,000 people. Substantial addi- 
tions and improvements were made to the 
vinegar plant, already the largest of its 
kind in the United States. The Arkansas 
Conference College is being enlarged by the 
construction of two new buildings. To these 
larger enterprises should be added the general 
improvement made on the several hundred 
dwellings and gardens surrounding them. 

The homes and highways of Siloam Springs 
are shaded by tall and stately trees, and one 
can walk from one end of the city to the other 
in a continuous shade. In the city are several 
parks and two of these are close to the most 
popular springs. Nearly all the homes, and 
there are hundreds of them, are surrounded 
by well-kept gardens, embellished with orna- 
mental shrubs and floweiing plants. All things 
considered, Siloam Springs is a very pleasant 
place to live in, and its climate leaves but 
little to be desired. 

The winters are not cold and the summers 
are not hot. In the hottest weather the nights 
are cool and refreshing and one can get a good 
rest and feel like a new person the next morn- 
ing. The temperature will average about as 
follows: March, April and May, 61 degrees; 
June, July and August, 76 degrees; September. 
October and November, .55 degrees; December, 



January and February, 44 degrees. A careful 
record of the days of sunshine during the 
entire year were 214 days out of the 365. 
There is no damp depressing weather at any 
time, for while the rainfall is considerable at 
times, it lets up and the next hour may be 
bright and pleasant. 

The sources of income in the vicinity of 
Siloam Springs are manifold, but the greatest 
resource is the production of fine fruits. The 
climate and soil are particularly well adapted 
to commercial fruit growing. The soil ranges 
from a red clay loam to a black loam, under- 
laid with a red clay subsoiL Gravelly soil is 
found in places and is particularly esteemed, 
because it imparts color and flavor to fruits 
which win lasting favor in the market. It 
is highly productive and will grow anything 
any other land will. The bed rock is a cavern- 
ous limestone which makes the best foundation 
for all fruit growing lands. 

The soil and the climate of Benton County 
are conducive to the production of every pro- 
duct of the north temperate zone. It has 
been clearly demonstrated in recent years that 
it is especially adapted to horticulture; our 
apples, peaches, pears, cherries and all the 
berries and other fruits attain a size, color and 
flavor that cannot be excelled in any part of 
the worl<^ The largest and most important 
crop is the apple and then the peach. There 
will be harvested in Benton County this fall 
from apple trees two million dollars' worth of 
apples. Benton County has more bearing 
apple trees than any other county in the 
world. Our apples are shipped all over the 
world. The cold storage plant will be filled to 
its utmost capacity and the vinegar factory 
will be busy for a whole year, working up part 
of this year's crop. Peaches and strawberries, 
blackberries, raspberries, also yield a large 
revenue. The strawberry is always a reliable 
crop and pays one year with another from 
$50 to $100 per acre. The peach is somewhat 
uncertain in its yield, doing best on the high 



lands. It pays very well when a crop is ob- 
tained, which happens often enough to make 
it interesting. Some part of the county has 
produced fine peaches every year, that is to 
say, Benton County had some peaches every 
year, but the peach cannot be counted on as 
a regular crop in any particular locality. 

While fruit is the best paying crop, yet We 
can and do raise successfully timothy, clover, 
alfalfa, blue grass, etc., corn, wheat, oats, barley, 
rye, and in fact can raise anything, but fruit 
pays the best. There are many families that 
nave 10-acre tracts who are making an indepen- 
dent living and some money besides. The 
small farmers, from 40 acres down, are the 
ones that are making the most money, and 
making it fast and easy, and as land is not 
high yet, there are many opportunities for 
securing a home with small means, and then 
you are independent for life. There are many 
incidents of men becoming independently rich 
from the cultivation of small tracts. 

Poultry must not be forgotten, as it is a 
very important industry, for in this climate 
"Old Biddy" attends to business the year 
around. One of our poultry shippers shipped 
in one week $10,000 worth of Arkansas eggs. 
Yes, the faithful hen can be relied upon, for 
she enjoys this climate, too. There are three 
produce dealers doing business in Siloam 
Springs and they are all responsible men. 
There is $30,000 per month paid out for this 
class of produce here. 

While horticulture is the most profitable 
industry in Benton County, agriculture, stock 



raising and poultry prove great resources to 
the farmers who are thrifty and industrious. 
In fact, the country is so resourceful that the 
farmer can have something to sell every month 
if he only lays his plans well and works on 
systematic basis. In the first place this is a 
sure crop country, and the farmer is not ha- 
rassed with doubts about the seasons. He 
knows that he will reap when he sows and 
hence peace of mind and contentment lengthen 
his age many years. Drouth has no terror for 
him, and he loses no sleep over high winds, hail- 
storms or floods. In fact he is not vexed with 
any of the extremes of climate that make life 
a burden to the farmer of so many places. And 
this is an advantage that cannot be overesti- 
mated. Some of our farmers are getting 
swelled up because they received more for 
their apples in the field last season than they 
thought their land was worth. The trouble 
with them is the land is worth more than they 
thought it was. Nevertheless it is a fact that 
in many instances the apples sold for more 
(on the trees) than was paid for the land. This 
goes to prove that our country is yet in its 
infancy and values are bound to go higher. A 
good farm here set in orchard is the best and 
safest investment a man can have, of course 
this is counting one year with another. There 
is no country on earth where a greater numb^ 
or moro different variety of products can be 
grown on one farm. Diversified farming pays 
the best as it does everywhere else, yet fruit 
is the most profitable crop. 




ROLLMAN'S ORCHARD, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 



Rogers, Arkansas 



Rogers is a little city of about 4,000 people, 
lying in the Ozarks, at an altitude of 1,400 feet, 
and is the present terminus of the Arkansas, 
Oklahoma & Western Railroad which connects 
with the Kansas City Southern Railway at 
Siloam Springs, Ark. Rogers as a town is 
twenty-seven years old. Its population is nearly 
all American born. It has seven churches, 
good public schools, and a splendid academy. 
The industrial enterprises in operation are a 
first class electric light and water plant, a large 
ice and cold storage plant, a flouring mill with 
150 barrel capacity, a very complete white lime 
factory, a number of fruit evaporators, one cider 
and vinegar factory, two large canning fac- 
tories handling both fruits and vegetables, 
two barrel factories and a number of smaller 
industrial enterprises. There are also in 
Rogers two large poultry packing houses, a 
number of egg buyers, several wholesale fruit 
and commission houses, a wholesale grocery 
house, capital $50,000, a dozen retail grocers 
and retail houses dealing in other lines, four 
banks, with $450,000 deposits, sanitarium and 
the Rogers Commercial Club. 

All the streets have sewers, are well graded 
and there are more miles of concrete sidewalks 
than in any town of the same population in the 
country. Five rural delivery routes radiate 
from Rogers, and three weekly newspapers are 
published there. 

The country trade is dependent largely upon 
the fruit-growing industry, although general 
farming, stock and poultry raising are impor- 
tant factors in the husbandry of the country. 

Benton County, in 1907, produced one 
and one-half million bushels of apples, ship- 
ping apples 1,000 cars, evaporated 2,000,000 
pounds, strawberries 78 cars, peaches 150 cars. 
Rogers shipped, of green apples 164 cars, cold 
storage 100 cars, value $100,000; evaporated 
apples 40 cars, value $100,000; canned fruit 



100,000 bushels; vinegar factory 61,686 bushels; 
strawberries shipped 20 cars, value $25,000; 
peaches, total crop, 72 cars, value $50,000,— 
Total Fruit Crop, $325,000. 

The average rainfall in Benton County is 
approximately 40 inches. According to the re- 
port of the Weather Bureau of the U. S. Agri- 
cultural Department, the average temperature 
for the same year was as follows: January, 42.8; 
February, 40.6; March, 58.4; April, 51.2; May, 
60.7; June, 71.6; July, 78.0; August, 58.3. 
The total snowfall was 8.7 inches. These 
figures are a fair average of other years, and 
show an equable climate. 

The soil in the vicinity of Rogers is particu- 
larly adapted to fruits, although every kind of 
grain found in the temperate zone will thrive 
here. The water is of the best found in the 
United States and is found in springs every- 
where. Public health is exceptionally good 
in Benton County. 

While lands are still wonderfully cheap in 
Benton County, it should not be forgotten that 
this is a fairly well settled country. It is a 
country of small holdings, intensely cultivated, 
yielding revenues not obtainable from farms 
five or six times as large. Something yielding 
revenue every month in the year is produced 
and marketed and very little money is tied up 
in an idle acreage. There are Canneries at 
Neosho, Mo., Gentry, Gravette, Decatur, 
Siloam Springs and Rogers; Evaporators at all 
of these towns; Vinegar Factories at Rogers, 
Siloam Springs, Decatur; Cold Storage plants 
at Siloam Springs and Rogers, and at all points 
are well organized and effective Fruit Growers 
and Shippers Associations which handle the 
product in a business-like and profitable way. 
There is no pioneering to be done in Benton 
County, it is more Hke "home" than any other 
county in the state. 




Homeseekers' Round Trip Tickets 

To points in Benton County, Arkansas, and return, limited to twenty-five days, are on sale 
at very low rates, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month from points in Illinois, Wiscon- 
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, while from 
points east of Illinois, the rates are slightly higher. 

Stop-overs, on round trip homeseekers' tickets to points south of Mena, Ark., will be 
allowed at Mena on both going and return trip. 

For Rates, address S. G. WARNER, G. P. A., Kansas City, Mo. 



Household Goods and Emigrant Movables 



The term "Household Goods and Emigrant 
Movables" will apply to property of an in- 
tending settler only and will include tools and 
implements of calling (including hand and foot 
power machines, but not including machinery 
driven by steam, electricity, gas, gasoline, 
compressed air or water, other than agricul- 
tural implements); second-hand store fixtures 
of merchants; second-hand vehicles (not in- 
cluding self-propelling vehicles, hearses, and 
similar vehicles); livestock, not to exceed 



ten (10) head (subject to declared valuations 
and premium charges); trees and shrubbery; 
lumber and shingles; fence posts; one portable 
house; seeds for planting purposes; feed for 
live stock while in transit, and household goods, 
but does not include general merchandise, nor 
any articles which are intended for sale or 
speculation. Shipments of emigrant movables 
must contain a sufficient quantity of furniture 
to make the intention of a permanent residence 
at destination evident. 



Information about Freight rates can be obtained by addressing E. E. SMYTHE, Gen. Freight 
Agent, Kansas City, Mo. 



Where to Apply for Local Information 



The following named parties, resident in the towns along the line, who are, however, not con- 
nected with the Kansas City Southern Railway in any manner, will be pleased to furnish 
information concerning local conditions and opportunities for business in their respective 
towns and cities: 



Sulphur Springs, Ark. — Commercial Club, 
C. E. Larson, Secy. 
C. F. Church, Real Estate. 
Mo. Interstate Land Co. 
Gravette, Ark. —Commercial Club, Herb. 
Lewis, Secy. 
Fruit & Truck Growers Association, O. J. 

Halliday, Secy. 
J. T. Oswalt, Real Estate. 
Decatur, Ark. — Holland-American Fruit Prod- 
ucts Co. 
Fruit Growers Association, Jno. Kuebler, 

Secy. 
J. M. Collins, J. S. Hunsaker, Real Estate. 



Gentry, Ark. — Fruit Growers Association, 
O. W. Patterson, Secy. 
Fruit Growers Union, Chas. Wiberg, Secy. 
C. C. Lale, Griffin & Wasson, Real Estate. 

Siloam Springs, Ark. — Fruit Growers Asso- 
ciation, H. W. Hubbard, Secy. 

Aroma Berry Company, C. A. Ford, Secy. 

State Bank, W. T. La Follette, cashier. 

Siloam Springs Commercial League, Tom 
Williams, Secy. 

Rogers, Ark. — Commercial Club. 



Industrial Department, K. C. S. Ry. 

F. E. ROESLER, Industrial and Immigration Agent Kansas City, Mo. 

W. C. B. ALLEN, Geologist Kansas City, Mo. 

J. HOLLISTER TULL, Agriculturist Siloam Springs, Ark. 



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KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. 

TEXARKANA 6 FORT SMITH RAILWAY CO. 

ARKANSAS WESTERN RAILWAY CO. 

J. A. EDSON President 

J. F. HOLDEN Vice-President 

R. J. Mccarty Vice-President and Auditor 

W. COUGHLIN General Manager 

S. G. WARNER General Passenger and Ticket Agent 

E. E. SM YTHE General Freight Agent 

GENERAL OFFICES, KANSAS CITY, MO. 

RP'4¥Tii»r»iviT' w\r * J- L- BOYD General Agent 

BJirAUJHO.M, lt.\. ) j^ ^ MORRIS (T. & Ft. S. R'y) City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

CHICAGO, ILL., Marquette Bldg. 

H. A. GRABER General Agent 

DALLAS, TEX., Slaughter Bldg. 

A. CATUN A General Agent 

K^nHT oTiTiT'TT 4 BK" S H. N. HALL General Agent 

* uiti SMiiu, AKH. j Q -^ PITCHER City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

HOUSTON, TEX., Commercial Bank Building. 

E. E. ELMORE General Agent 

( C. W. NUNN General Agent 

JOPLIN, MO. < S. O. LUCAS Ticket Agent 

( C. S. HALL City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

KANSAS CITY, 3IO., 9th and Walnut Streets. 

E. L. MAinTN City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

J. C. McGINNIS, 2nd and Wyandotte Sts Depot Ticket Agent 

LAKE CHARLES, LA., 824 Ryan Street. 

F. E. HASKILL Commercial Agent 

J. R. MUSTAIN City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

MENA, ARK. 

G. B. WOOD General Agent 

NEW ORLEANS, LA., 614 Hlbernia Bank Bldg. 

J. M. C.\RUIERE General Agent 

NEW YORK, 366 Broadxvay. 

C. E. CRANE General Eastern Agent 

PITTSBURG, PA., 706 Park Bldg. 

D. S. ROBERTS General Agent 

ST. LOUIS, 3IO., Chemical Bldg. 

T. E. HAYWARD, Jr General Agent 

SAN ANTONIO, TEX., 434 Navarro St. 

C. M. WILKINSON Commercial Agent 

( A. H. VAN LOAN General Agent 

SHREVEPORT, LA., Caddo Hotel Bldg. < A. B. AVERY Union Station Ticket Agent 

( J. W. NORTON City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK. 

J. HOLLISTER TULL Agriculturist 

TEXARKANA, TEX. 

S. G. HOPKINS (T. & S. F. R'y) Gen. Pass. Agent 

J. L. LONTKOWSKY (T. & It. S. R'y) City Pass.' and Ticket Agent 

C. O. WILLIAMS Traveling Passenger Agent 

F. E. ROESLER Industrial and Immigration Agent 

W. C. B. ALLEN Geologist 

THAYER BLDG., KANSAS CITY, MO. 



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